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About the Journal

Journal of Horticulture provides an Open Access platform to the scientists who focus on the research that underpins horticultural knowledge, skills, technologies, education and commerce. Horticulture is a key factor in effective communication of the importance of plants, their cultivation and their use for sustainable human existence.

The journal includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contribution towards the journal and the editorial office promises a peer review process for the submitted manuscripts for the quality of publishing.

Horticulture is an open access journal which publishes high impact research papers from across the globe. This peer reviewed Journal also encourages the researchers to get the best from Journal of Horticulture among the horticulture journals list.

Journal of Horticulture is an Open Access journal and aims to publish most complete and reliable source of information on the discoveries and current developments in the mode of original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. in all areas of the field and making them freely available through online without any restrictions or any other subscriptions to researchers worldwide.

The journal is using Editorial Manager System for quality in the peer review process. Editorial Manager System is an online manuscript submission, review and tracking systems. Review processing is performed by the editorial board members of Journal of Horticulture or outside experts; at least two independent reviewers approval followed by editor approval is required for acceptance of any citable manuscript. Authors may submit manuscripts and track their progress through the system, hopefully to publication. Reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their opinions to the editor. Editors can manage the whole submission/review/revise/publish process.

Horticulture Hydroponics

Horticulture hydroponics is cultivation of flowers, vegetables and fruits without using soil in controlled conditions by supplying minerals and fertilizers through water or moisture. Once the plants get long roots, they are placed in fertilized water for some scientific study of nutrition.

Horticulture Nurseries

Landscape, vegetable, fruit and forestry samplings are grown in horticulture nursery before transplantation. The order for quality of horticulture nursery has gone up and hence the nursery business has developed rapidly in the recent years in most of the countries.

Landscape Horticulture

Landscaping and decorative plants are in huge demand for urban forestry and domestic landscape. Special horticulture techniques have in continuous development. Growing of plants and arranging the plants & flowers in design of landscape is done in this floriculture and landscape horticulture which is a kind of architecture.

Horticultural Oil

Essential oils derived from horticulture herbs, flowers, roots and tubers having many medicinal value and applications. Horticultural Oils are used to control pests and diseases which are caused to plants. These oils are mostly derived from petroleum and will kill scale, aphids, predatory mites and insects.

Horticulture vs Agriculture

Horticulture requires some controlled conditions, special techniques and equipment’s. Whereas agriculture in bulk requires general conditions and knows how and does not need sophistication. Horticulture is subdivision of agriculture which deals with gardening of plants. Agriculture deals with cultivation of crops and also animal farming whereas Horticulture deals with cultivation only.

Organic Gardening

Organic gardening is gardening without using synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. Soil itself has to be free from the above synthetic residues. A long term process of organic producing of vegetables which is move in stages than producing in a particular season. The Organic gardening techniques are also advantageous to flora and fauna and will not create an imbalance in the natural food chain.

European Horticulture

Horticulture industry, products and technologies are in continuous development and use in europe. European horticulture and agriculture is highly developed. There are many types of flowers like orchids, etc. which are grown in european countires. They use different techniques for growth of these flowers.

Japanese Horticulture

Horticulture especially green house horticulture is highly developed in japan mainly for vegetables, flowers and fruits. Because of this greenhouse products, demand formation for vegetable and fruits has became different and supply was done without any import. Finally, greenhouse products are playing an important role all the seasons in this region.

Horticulture Marketing Analysis

World horticulture market is worth more than two hundred billion and growing at the rate of 10%. Fruits, vegetables and flowers form the major bulk of export and import market. The main factors granting to this horticulture market growth is the increase in demand of food. The Global Greenhouse Horticulture market has also been observing the growth in research and development in this field.

Applied Horticulture

Development, application and market analysis of the horticulture products for a given region or country is termed as applied horticulture. Its mainly focus on the production of plants, herbs, fruits, flora.

Horticulture Source

Techniques, equipment or product sourcing from different contries is termed as horticulture source. Horticulture tools and equipments are the major source of horticulture. Horticulture gardening and irrigation machinery are used for nurseries, floriculture, Olericulture, Fruitculture, greenhouse industries, etc.

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*2016 Journal Impact Factor was established by dividing the number of articles published in 2014 and 2015 with the number of times they are cited in 2016 based on Google search and the Scholar Citation Index database. If 'X' is the total number of articles published in 2014 and 2015, and 'Y' is the number of times these articles were cited in indexed journals during 2016 then, impact factor = Y/X